Video review: Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day

Cert PG, 92mins (3 stars)

Making a film usually involves a script, a director and a budget. Miss Pettigrew, on the other hand, is so unbelievably frothy, it looks as if it was prepared using merely a bucket of warm water and some soap flakes.

A lighter-than-air farce, it’ll delight the stairlift brigade but, if you’re not in possession of dodgy hips, you should steer decidedly well clear.

Set in late-1930s London, our flighty flapper is in the throes of choosing one of three keen-as-mustard suitors; the wealthy but cruel Nick (Mark Strong), West End producer Phil (Tom Payne) and penniless piano player Michael (Lee Pace). Worldly-wise Miss Pettigrew is there to help, while also fending off the attentions of a wealthy lingerie designer (Ciarán Hinds).